Vernal R. King family farm; multiple views. Farm of 536 acres located about 8 miles east of Taylorsville in the Summerland Community. Smith Co. Agricultural agent Truitt Bufkin assisted with selection of farm family.

Diary kept from March 1848 to February 1851 by James Knox (1786-1864), a planter and Presbyterian church elder in Pickens County, Alabama. The diary records planting, harvesting, and other agricultural work, as well as Presbytery meetings and...

Letter to ''Lit'' (Matilda Ann Boyd Webb) from her cousin, Mattie A. Boyd, and Sophie Boyd Hays. Mattie is visiting Sophie, her school term in Oxford having just ended. Mattie writes that most of the young men are gone from town, and that...

Letter from Sophie Boyd Hays in La Grange, Tennessee, to ''Lit'' (Matilda A. Boyd Webb), mentioning the likely secession of Virginia and regretting that young men are leaving school to sign up for the army, 1861. She also discusses dressmaking and...

Everett Stringer family farm; multiple views. Farm of 160 acres located in the New Hope Community about 14 miles southwest of Columbia, MS. Marion County agent D. O. Scott assisted with selection of farm family.